The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-12-22
Itena of III Sorts.

A German carp weighing more than.
ten pounds was caught in a mill dam
near Oringsburg, Pa.
Much alarm exists among coffee plant
ers in Brazil owing to new disease llav-
ing broken out in the coffee shrubs.
In some of the southern counties of
Virginia, the cultivation of peanuts is
gradually taking the place of cotton as
affording a more profitable crop.
A ..belled buzzard' is again circulating
over middle and west Tennessee. Owing
to the mortality among cattle, caused by
the drought, he fills long felt want.
A Galloway, Colo, COW is to next
season make her home on the top of Pixies
peak. She will be the highest cow on
earth. A stable will be built for her, and
a burro will pack the feed to her. She
is to be kept there for her milk.
Tigers have been encountered lately in
parts of Asiatic and European Russia,
where they have never been before. Some
of the animals have been captured and
sent to st. Petersburg alive.
A telegraph line to connect Russia and
France is being built. In case of war
with Germany Russia would be cut off
from all telegraph communication with
the eastern countries. as the only telc-
graph wire it has goes through Germany
In excavating for cellar at St. Angus
tine, Fla, workman disinterred an mi
mense iron crowbar, which must have
been used by the unknown aborigines. 1t
is ten feet long. tapering at each end to
sharp point, and weighs 100 pounds
An earthquake occurred in Iceland in
October last. The shock seems to have
seen confined to the southern part of the
island, and was very severe. The rock
1T Cape Pelkiavik, on which the light
house stands, has been rent asunder, and
10 house considerable damaged.
The old treaty oak ON Mrs. Thompson S
lantation in Oclethorpe county, Ga, has
Lccn cut and killed. This famous white
ak was the tree under which the first
etllers made the treaty with the Chcro-
.ce Indians for all the land in that Sec
Ion of the state.
The immigration of children to Canada
is attracting much attention in Great
Critain. Large numbers of pauper chill
tren have been sent over, and inspectors
have been appointed by the government
to visit the children once or twice a year
to see that they are properly provided
for.
The manufacture of bicycles and til
cycles is the latest development of Ger
man competition with a hitherto spec:ii-
cally English industry. The splendid
roads OF the Dlack Forest and Switzcr-
land have this year been more thronged
than ever before with velocipedists. There
is now hardly town in Germany with
out its vclocipede club.
A buzz saw broke while running at =
high rate of speed in Corvallis, Ore, the
other day, and n piece striking William
Buchanan in the arm just below the
shoulder cut it off SO quickly and easily
that he didn't know that he was hurt
until he saw his arm lying at his feet.
Then he claspcd the bleeding stump and
ran to q neighboring house.
The Angora goat seems to be raised il
great perfection in Texas. a skin Of the
most beautiful description came from the
ranch of the Messrs. Arnold, III Uvalds
county. The hair is brilliantly white,
and very long and silky. They also. pos
sess the art down there Of dressing these
skins il a manner to make them as use
full for rugs as they are agreeable 70 look